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dwelt wpon the necessity of a correct knowledge of the fossils peculiar to 

 each bed, as the only true means of identifying strata. 



Mr. Parkinson exhibited drawings of "Belas Knap" tumulus, — of the 

 large long skulls of the most ancient race of men, from the round tumuli, 

 — and a correct representation of a shepherd's hut near Abliugton, 

 supposed to have been an ancient British residence; and a neatly-drawn 

 diagram of Bredon Hill, shewing the position of the round and long 

 tumuli upon it, the situation of the sand, of the serrated flint flakes, and 

 the course of the road, with the position and stratification of the gravel- 

 bed ; pointing out the relative position of the most ancient human 

 evidences, — the human skulls, and the Roman horse-shoes, coins, and 

 bone pins, together with the position on the Lias marls and mud in 

 which the extinct mammalian remains were discovered. 



Fine specimens were shewn of the horns of the Bos longifrons, from 

 the silt and gravel of the Chelt, near the Old Wells, Cheltenham. 



On the 14th September, the British Association for the advancement 

 of Science met at Bath, under the presidency of Sir Charles Lyell, 

 when the Cotteswold Club, in accordance with its programme, made Bath 

 their place of meeting. 



Your President, in association with the President of the Malvern Club, 

 the Rev. W. S. Symonds, of Pendock, hired a large house in Pulteney 

 Street, Bath, for the occasion ; which became the centre for the members 

 of both Field Clubs, who rallied round them on the occasion, a social 

 circle of the most agreeable character, comprising among ladies and 

 gentlemen of high social position and scientific eminence, many of the 

 most distinguished members of the Britsh Association, including their 

 illustrious President, Sir Charles Lyell ; Professor Phillipps, (Pi-esident 

 elect;) Mr. Lubbock, F.R.S., and Mrs. Lubbock; Dr. Hooker, F.R.S., 

 and Mrs. Hooker; Professor Harkness, F.R.S., and Miss Harkness; 

 Sir William Jardine, F.R.S., and Miss Jardine; Lord Enniskillen, 

 F.R.S.; The Dean of Hereford; SIi-Willoughby Jones, and many others. 

 This field-club centre proved an extraordinary success, imparting a 

 force and cohesion, which gave importance to an embodiment, the dis- 

 severed elements of which had been previously capable of exercising but 

 little influence, but, thus combined, affording support to the Association, 

 from an entirely new quartei-, the value of which was fidly recognised. 

 It is proposed to perpetuate this institution, and with that view, 

 Mr. Symonds and myself have already taken measures for securing 

 accommodation at Birmingham, during the ensuing congress of the 



